More Evidence that the Japanese are Just F-ing WEIRD

[gblowfish]

They've invented the Robot Handie....

http://tinyurl.com/mnaeluc

The Second Law of Robotics is: A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings.

Over the weekend, a virtual sex simulator debuted in Japan, Kotaku reported. The "VR Tenga" is the product of a joint effort from adult toy company Tenga and virtual reality pioneer Oculus VR, the company behind an immersive virtual reality headset called the Oculus Rift.

The VR Tenga was unveiled at an Oculus Rift game jam in Tokyo and, as can be seen in the NSFW video above, has at least a few people excited. Buzzfeed explains how the contraption gets the robo-job done:

The device attaches a Novint Falcon—a grip-based, haptic controller—to a Tenga, a Japanese industrial masturbator. Used as intended, the user would insert his penis into the Tenga, which would be manipulated by the Falcon. All the while the user views on his Oculus some sort of visual stimulation synced to the movement of the hybrid Falcon/Tenga.

In a HuffPost/YouGov survey conducted in April, eighteen percent of respondents said they believed sex robots would be available by 2030, while only nine percent said they would have sex with a robot if they had the opportunity.

Who could resist?

[NinerDoug]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

It's not just the "robotic" device. It's Bukakke, it's sex, it's mind-altering, mood-enhancing drug use. It's so many things...

So you're saying that everything that represents the immoral according to traditional values, sex, drugs, etc., are all much more prevalent in Japan. Is that right?

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by NinerDoug

So you're saying that everything that represents the immoral according to traditional values, sex, drugs, etc., are all much more prevalent in Japan. Is that right?

It's a completely different society, period.

[NinerDoug]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

It's a completely different society, period.

There is no arguing with that proposition.

I just think the idea that things that we consider immoral here are more prevalent there is completely baseless. More than that, it's fictional, and original at that, because I have never heard anyone say anything like that before. If anything, honor and tradition are probably exponentially stronger there than they are here.

FYI, a google search turned this up, which I found interesting.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/data...-use-map-world

[CrazyPhuD]

Japanese VR porn....it's all fun and games until the machine starts putting eels up your anus.....

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by htismaqe

I may get skewered for this but I think Dane's point applies somewhat to our society as well...

It's certainly a contributing factor from where we were.

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Dane isn't talking about religion per say, its more about moral code that majority of the USA goes off is based on Judeo-Christian values.

Exactly. So many people get caught up in the dogma at the height of there resolve against this moral code neglecting the fact that it was bore out of developing civilizations evolution.

[Garcia Bronco]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

I think that's a sad statement, to be honest.

Family provides us with many of our greatest successes. Sure, going it lone-wolf is easier, but so is settling in at middle-management. Ambition is a bitch and sometimes it hurts more than it helps. But if done well, that ambition will serve you greater than ambivalence ever will.

The same applies to family life. Marry poorly and make a marginal investment and it's not going to work to your advantage. Marry well and work on it and you'll live a happier, more well-rounded life for it.

It's tougher at times, but I think your life is far more fulfilling and far more rewarding for the effort.

But your mileage may vary.

It's more than sad.

Of course the struggle of experience serves one better, but one can achieve this without off-spring. It's just a different way of going about things. Of course I see the value in teaching and raising children. To share in their failures and successes. Nature desires this IMO and my post's existence proves your point in terms of the experience's value.
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[KC native]

Japan is a very sexually repressed culture and has been for quite a while. This has filtered down to the younger generation as non-interest in sex.

There are many reasons that Japan is in the situation they are in, not coming from a Judeo Christian background is not one of them (nor is their version of Buddhism responsible either).

Their corporate culture, gender roles in society (for career women getting pregnant is a career ender there, and marriage puts you at risk for pregnancy so career minded women have an aversion to sex and marriage), and their sexual repression in their public facing lives are all much more responsible.

[Dayze]

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

Anyone here ever banged a jap?

[Canofbier]

Originally Posted by CrazyPhuD

Japanese VR porn....it's all fun and games, especially when the machine starts putting eels up your anus.....

FYP

[lcarus]

Originally Posted by ChiefsCountry

Dane isn't talking about religion per say, its more about moral code that majority of the USA goes off is based on Judeo-Christian values.

Yeah but even a lot of Christians blow their religion off when it comes to getting off. I live in a big time Christian state and city, and you'd be hard pressed to find a chick that truly believes and follows "marriage before sex".

[Canofbier]

Originally Posted by NinerDoug

Still not getting it. Is he trying to say that: 1) This will be a common household item in Japan, and 2) It won't sell here?

You can buy sex in the US. You can buy sex toys in the US. So someone in Japan develops a high tech sex toy, and that means the nation is immoral or weird because of its lack of a Judeo-Christian origin?

Sounds like some rather lame ass reasoning to me.

This is pretty spot-on. Just like the rest of the world has a skewed perception of the US (and who can blame them when they're seeing things like "16 and Pregnant", "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" and "Jersey Shore"), we're getting a doctored-up account of Japan and their culture, which although very different from ours, isn't as freakish as we're often led to believe.

I don't know enough about the issue of sex in Japan to comment definitively, but a simple search turned up a different Slate article that makes a reasonably well-stated case against the idea. It will be interesting to see how Japan changes demographically over the next few decades and what affect that may have on their global influences (as was mentioned by someone else earlier in the thread).

[Sannyasi]

95% of Japanese people have the same reaction to this kind of stuff that we do... "WTF?" The more mundane, ordinary aspects of Japanese culture never make it over here to us for the exact reason that it isn't strange or perverse.

I wonder if people in other countries are reading brony articles and pontificating about it on internet forums, trying to come up with all of the sociological and cultural reasons for why Americans want to **** rainbow colored ponies.

[Crush]

Call me when they invent humanoid cylons.

[Hammock Parties]

i think im turning japanese
i think im turning japanese
i really think so